Pistolleto biography
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Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella (Italy) on June 25, 1933, the only child of Ettore Olivero Pistoletto (1898-1981) and Livia Fila (1896-1971). His father, a painter, originally from Gravere in the omröstning di Susa, moved to Turin in the twenties with the aim of perfecting his technique. During a long stay in Biella, where he executed a series of works, including a series of monochrome frescoes known as graffiti on the history of the wool craft for the Ermenegildo Zegna wool mill and luxury fashion house, Ettore Olivero met Livia Fila, marrying her in March 1932. A year after Michelangelo’s birth the family went to live in Turin, where his father continued to paint and opened a studio of restoration. Michelangelo learned the basics of drawing and painting from his father while still a child. On Sunday mornings he would accompany his father on his habitual visit to the Galleria Sabauda, whose exhibits included a collection of icons and altarpieces on a gold ground and tillsammans
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Summary of Michelangelo Pistoletto
Though well-trained and with a facility for classical painting techniques, early in his career Pistoletto developed a stronger interest in the conceptual aspects of art objects. This included his use of humble materials such as tissue paper and mirrors, which helped lay foundations for the Arte Povera movement. Influenced by the social implications of more experimental tendencies in theatrical performance of his time, Pistoletto promoted a greater role for art in society and politics through his later projects that attempted to re-fashion the human world while involving many creative collaborators and crossing disciplinary lines, including mixing elements of music, theater, and installation, along with other visual art elements. He also designed works so that each would appear to be created by a different artist, defying notions of "branding" a signature style. Both playful (in his unconventional means) and serious (in his high-minded goals of cha
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Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella in 1933.
He began to exhibit his work in 1955 and in 1960 he had his first solo show at Galleria Galatea in Turin. An inquiry into self-portraiture characterizes his early work.
In the two-year period 1961-1962 made the first Mirror Paintings, which directly include the viewer and real time in the work, and open up perspective, reversing the Renaissance perspective that had been closed by the twentieth-century avant-gardes. These works quickly brought Pistoletto international acclaim, leading, in the sixties, to one-man shows in important galleries and museums in Europe and the United States. The Mirror Paintings are the foundation of his subsequent artistic output and theoretical thought.
In 1965 and 1966 he produced a set of works entitled Minus Objects, considered fundamental to the birth of Arte Povera, an art movement of which Pistoletto was an animating force and a protagonist.
In 1967 he began to work outsid